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Note (ca. 1781) to the Honorable Mr. "Bourke" (probably Gov. Thomas Burke), stating that "the Chevalier [John] Paul-Jones will esteem it a particular favor" if he would send him a copy of the Constitution of North Carolina for "a particular Friend to ...

1778 - 1784

Papers of Caswell, son of Gov. Richard Caswell and brigadier general of New Bern District. Subjects of correspondence include his execution of loyalists and threat of British retaliation on Maj. Samuel Ashe and others (1781); military action at Bryan's ...

1781 - 1959

Letter to Gov. Thomas Burke from Jones, Halifax Co. legislator, president of N.C. Council of Safety (1776), and member of Continental Congress (1780-1781), relaying rumors of a British cavalry raid toward Halifax from Virginia (July, 1781). Material ...

Volume and Page References: Volume:XI; Page:72; Folio:1 Volume:XI; Page:84; Folio:1 Volume:VIII; Page:65; Folio:4 Volume:VIII; Page:86; Folio:4 Volume:XI; Page:14; Folio:2 Volume:V; Page:1; Folio:4 Volume:VII; Page:42; ...

1784

Recorded Copy Reference: WB-A/283 (WB = WillBook)

Original: AR (The original will is in the North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.)

Location where will was filed and probated: Orange County

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1798

Deposition of General Richard McKinne, Wayne County, before Joseph Everitt, justice, in the form of interrogatories: knew William Faircloth, Jr., and Thomas Burke of Dobbs County; Faircloth is insolvent and Burke, who moved to Georgia about 16 years ...

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1802

Nansemond Store No. 1. List of debts due since the American Revolution. Includes several North Carolinians, among whom are Governor Thomas Burke. [Undated, but on W. Kingsford paper made in 1802. Cover and 5 folios.]

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1804

Debts due to the firm at their Norfolk, Va., store since the Revolution. EXTRACT. Includes North Carolina debtors Thomas Younghusband, Currituck County, Thomas Burke of North Carolina, and Joseph Hewes of Edenton.

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1787

Served on Moore's Creek expedition, after which he was imprisoned; was made lieutenant at Wilmington in 1781; helped to take Governor [Thomas] Burke and Council at Hillsborough; served as major on James Island, South Carolina, until evacuated; was ...

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1783

Photocopy of letter (Dec. 2, 1783) from William Johnston, Orange Co. legislator and agent of loyalist Edmund Fanning, to Adlai Osborn of Rowan Co., concerning sale of Fanning's lands there for execution of judgment, and commenting on death of former ...

1770 - 1829

Papers of Iredell, Edenton lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1790-1799). His diary, kept while a customs official and law student (Aug., 1770; Nov.-Feb., 1773-1774), describes his life in Edenton, his reading, his thoughts, and ...

1783

Loyalist brother of Governor Thomas Burke. Memorial to the Commissioners on American Loyalists setting forth his sufferings: rose from surgeon's mate to be surgeon major with pay of colonel while serving the Americans in the Southern Department; threw ...

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1783

Loyalist petition of a Moore's Creek prisoner who later attempted to join Cornwallis in 1781 but was captured again and imprisoned at Halifax from which jail he escaped and joined [Colonel Hector] McNeil and [Colonel David] Fanning at the time they ...

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1958

Photograph depicting the frontal exterior of the Thomas Burke-Dennis Heartt House, located in Hillsborough. The surrounding landscape can also be seen.

[ca. 1938 - 1956 ]

Two Separate Views- One Overall Exterior and a Street Scene, of the Orange County Courthouse, at Hillsboro, North Carolina, circa 1943.